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BillionDollar
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Rules
22 questions in total.
Starred questions, as tie-breakers.
No negatives, creative guessing is stronglyencouraged, but illegible handwriting and wrongspellings arent.
May, the Force be withYou.
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Whos the man under the cowl?
PS. for bonus points give the name of the charactersaying
uh-oh.
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Man under the cowl : Bruce Wayneuh-oh : Bat-Mite
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Explain this.
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On March 1, 2010, Topeka (a city in Kansas)
Mayor Bill Bunten issued a proclamation callingfor Topeka to be known for the month of Marchas "Google, Kansas, the capital city of fiberoptics." This was to help "support continuingefforts to bring Google's fiber experiment" to
Topeka, though it was not a legal name change.Google jokingly announced that it would
change its name to Topeka to "honour thatmoving gesture" on April 1, 2010 (April Fools
Day) and changed its home page to sayTopeka.
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Professor Utonium wanted to make"the perfect little girls" by using "sugar...
spice... and everything nice." However,the accidental addition of ______________into the mixture created the girls each
having superpowers but whose individualpersonality was dominated by one of theingredients ("sugar" for Bubbles, "spice"for Buttercup, and "everything nice" for
Blossom).
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Chemical X
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Complete this quote by CocoChanel: I want to give women..a scent that smells like a _________not like a flower.
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Woman
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Feroze Gandhi
Husband of Indira Gandhi, and father of Sanjay andRajeev Gandhi.
Feroze Gandhi contested independent India's firstgeneral elections in 1952, from Rae Bareli constituency
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What is the OS running theOlivePad ?
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Android
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By convention what two
symbols are traditionally used inpublishing to denote the firstand second footnotes to the
main text in a book?
Correct SpellingPlease
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Asterisk and Obelisk
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It is the national airways of whichfederation? HINT: it recently signed Katrina Kaif as its brand
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United Arab Emirates
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I came in with Halleys Comet in 1835. It iscoming again next year, and I expect to go out withit. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if
I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almightyhas said, no doubt: Now here are these twounaccountable freaks; they came in together, theymust go out together.
He died of a heart attack on April21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut,one day after the comet's closest
approach to Earth.Whos he?
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Mark Twain
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Halloween
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Event : G3
Guitarists ( l to r) : Joe Satriani, Steve
Vai, John Petrucci
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Founder ?
for bonus: _______________ a pun on the Punic Wars, is the namegiven to the rivalry between the pornographic magazines
Playboy and Penthouse during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Founder : Bob Guccione
Rivalry : Pubic Wars
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The Personality Cult and its Consequenceswas a report, critical of Stalin, made tothe 20th Party Congress on Feb 25,1956 by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. It ismore commonly known asthe ____________________ or the KhrushchevReport. In the speech, Khrushchev criticized
actions taken by the regime of Joseph Stalin,particularly the purges of the military and theupper Party echelons, and the development ofStalin's personality, while maintaining support
for the ideals of Communism byinvoking Vladimir Lenin.
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Secret Speech
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Euclid Avenue and East105th Street in Cleveland,
Ohio.August 5, 1914 .
Something happened.that
would lead to the saving ofmany lives in the comingdecades.
What?
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The first traffic light clicked fromred to green to help the flow of
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The rath yatra is now a standardmode of elections campaigns in
India with several leaders choosingthis mass contact programme towin over the electorate. Who
undertook the pioneering rathyatra which besides catapultinghim to power also entered theGuinness Book of Records?
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N T Rama Rao
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Which organization got itsname because its membersused to meet at the office ofeach member of the group inturns?
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Rotary Club
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______________ is a fictional place described in the1933 novel _________________ by British author
_______________. In the book, " ______________" is amystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery,enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains.
_____________has become synonymous with any earthlyparadise but particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia apermanently happy land, isolated from the outside world. In
the novel _________________, the people who live at______________ are almost immortal, living years beyondthe normal lifespan and only very slowly aging inappearance. The word also evokes the imagery of exoticismof the Orient. In the ancient Tibetan scriptures, existence of
seven such places is mentioned as Nghe-Beyul Khimpalung.One of such places is mentioned to be situated somewhere inthe Makalu-Barun region.
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Shangri-la
Lost Horizon
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Ozzy Osbourne. All of them ( Ronnie James Dio,
Glenn Hughes, Ian Gillian, Ray Gillen, Tony Martin),including Osbourne were the frontman (lead vocalist) ofBlack Sabbath , during Sabbaths various line-ups.
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HindiName.
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Satranj ke Khiladi
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Inspired by which HollywoodBlockbuster?
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Twilight
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Canaan Banana: 18 April 1980 31 December1987
_______________________ : 31 December 1987 current
(Canaan Banana. In 1982 a law waspassed forbidding citizens from making
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Robert Mugabe (President of Zimbabwe)
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In 1949Jawaharlal Nehru became the firstIndian PM to visit the US. Who was the first USPresident to visit India? Which year?
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Eisenhower. In 1959.
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Infinite Bounce
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All the pictures are part of a centraltheme.
The answer to each question, may ormay not be directly associated with thetheme.
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IDENTIFYHINT: She played the lead role in St. Trinians , the secondhighest grossing independent British movie of all time after
Four Weddings And A Funeral.
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Talulah Riley
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This spacecraft is beingdeveloped for NASA todeliver cargo to the ISS.
This craft is beingdesigned so that onfuture flights it can carryseven people, or amixture of personnel and
cargo, to and from low-Earth orbit. It heat shieldis designed to withstandre-entry velocities fromLunar and Martianspaceflight missions.
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Dragon, SpaceX
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Robert Downey Jr. in the movieChaplin
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Co-founder of PayPal, which merged into eBay. PayPalscorporate headquarters are housed @ San Jose center ofeBay.
Talulah Riley is the 2nd and current wife of Musk.
Musk is the CEO of SpaceX.
Musk is the CEO and Chief Product Architect of TeslaMotors.
Executive Producer of Thank You For Smoking.
Robert Downey Jr. based his depiction of Tony Stark onElon Musk.
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All the three films use Stop-
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This is the 1964 Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by
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It is the self-immolation of Ha thng Thch Qung c, a Vietnamese MahayanaBuddhist monk, at a busy Saigon roadintersection on 11 June 1963, as a protestagainst the persecution of Buddhists by SouthVietnam's Ng nh Dim administration.
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Which Group?
female guestsparticipants, includeShirley Maclaine, LaurenBacalll, Angie
Dickinson, MarilynMonroe.
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Rat Pack.A group centered on Humphrey Bogart. The core
group was made up of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin,Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop.
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1. The 1996 biographical drama Infinityis based on his early life.
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2. He assisted in establishing the system for using IBM punched cards forcomputation.
3. He drew these :
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"for their fundamental work in quantumelectrodynamics, with deep-ploughingconsequences for the physics of elementary
particles
and he is,
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Give the name of this advertisementvideo and the company that launched it.
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The video is called The Cog andit was launched by Honda topromote their 7th generation of
Accord cars.
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The people in the picture are celebratingsomething called the Bloomsday. After theevents in which novel is Bloomsday celebrated?
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Ulysses, by James Joyce is considered one of themost important works of 20th century literature.The novel's main character is Leopold Bloom, afterwhom the festival is named as an affirmation andcelebration of life. The name is effectively the
antonym of Doomsday. It is celebrated on June 16,the date on which the fictional events described inthe novel occurred.
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Incredible India.
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This used be a flag of India. When?
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Mughal Rule
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He is arguably one of the most villainouscharacter in the Indian culture and history, yetpeople of the Kumaon region (in Uttaranchal),
worship him as a deity.
He is supposed to be an avatar of Kali.
The greek actor Georges Corraface hadportrayed him in an English movie.
Whos he?
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Mohun Bagan Athletic Club was the firstIndian team to defeat a European team,
when the team defeated the East Yorkshire Regiment, 2-1 to lift the 1911IFA Shield. A postage stamp was issuedby the Government of India in 1989
during the club's centenary year tocommemorate the 1911 victory of theteam. The then Indian Prime Minister,Rajiv Gandhi honoured the Mohun Bagan
Athletic Club with the title as the___________________________" for boostingup the Indian Nationalism which occurredafter this win.
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National Club Of India
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DURYODHANA
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Which incidents aredepicted by these ads?
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The left hand corner ad depicts the Kargil War,and the other depicts the shooting on Sri Lankancricketers during their Pakistan tour.
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The case was not only the last jury trial held
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an_____________________ has descended across the Continent.Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of
Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna,Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famouscities and the populations around them lie in what I must callthe Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another,not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some
cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.- Winston Churchill (Sinews of Peace address, 5th March, 1946)
The phrase symbolized the ideological fighting and physical boundarydividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945
until the end of the Cold War in 1989.
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IRON CURTAIN
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China's National University of Defense
Technology announced October 28,2010 that ithas developed the world's fastestsupercomputer.The machine, called Tianhe-1A(Tianhe means "Milky Way"), has more than 2.5
petaflops per second of peak processing power,chipmaker Nvidia says. Nvidia suppliedgraphics processors to Tianhe-1A.
Which supercomputer did it overtake?
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Cray XT5 Jaguar
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"Faster, Higher, Stronger" is the
motto of the Olympic Games. "Angrier,nastier, uglier" better describes thescene in Mexico City last week.
- Times Magazine (Friday, Oct. 25,1968)
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The Black Power salute by Tommie Smith(Gold, 200m) and John Carlos (Bronze ,200m)during the award ceremony at the OlympicStadium in Mexico City (1968 SummerOlympics) as a protest against discriminationsagainst African-Americans in the US.
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It is currently the worlds most rarest stamp,
with only one known specimen in existence.
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ALFRED E. NEUMAN
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ADOLF HITLER